To:M. N. POKROVSKY

Published:First published in part in 1962 in the journalKommunistNo. 4.

      Published in full in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 47.

      Sent to Russia.

      Printed from the original.Source:Lenin
	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Aug. 18. 08

DearSir, Mikhail Nikolayevich,

Itake the liberty of applying to you as former editor of theHistory of
Russia.[1]The secretary told me recently about the various plans
concerning an article dealing with the history of factory
industry. Although we fully agreed on everything I should like to have your
opinion: is it all right for me to undertake it in view of
Tugan-Baranovsky’s refusal?

Pleasewrite a few words in reply on receipt of this letter. Besides
the subject mentioned here, there are a great many more which our common
acquaintances would like to discuss with you. But I am not sure whether the
address may be used or whether it is all right to correspond. I am waiting
fordetailedinstructions on this score.

Bestregards,V. Ulyanov

VI.Oulianoff.61. Rue des Maraîchers. 61.Genève. Suisse.

[1]Thepublishers of the Granat Brothers’ Encyclopaedia were interested at
the time in studies on Russian history. Lenin was invited to contribute in
the autumn of 1907, when one of the editors of the Encyclopaedia,
A. V. Trupchinsky, made a special trip to Finland to negotiate with
him. Lenin agreed to write the essay “The Agrarian System in Russia
Towards the Close of the Nineteenth Century”, which was published only in
1918 by the Zhizn i Znaniye Publishers under the title “The Agrarian
Question in Russia Towards the Close of the Nineteenth Century”.

Trupchinskyalso visited Lenin in Geneva, where he evidently asked him
to write an article on the history of factory industry. The article was
never written.